Horse lawn-shoe.



C. ZINGRE. HORSE LAWN SHOE. APPLwATIbN FILED JULY 3, 1912.

1,950,901 Patented 11311.21, 1913.

lv VENTOII.

1 W Charies Zing/@- Mo/if I I CHARLES ZINGRE, OF CLAYTON, MISSOURI.

HORSE LAWNSHOE.

' Specification of Letters Patent. Patented J 3,11. 21, 1913.

1912. Serial No. 707,588.

' Application filed July 3,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES Zmcnn, citi- 1 zen of the United States, residing at Clayton, in the county of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented cert-,ain' new and useful Improvements in Horse Lawn-Shoes, of which the fo lowing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part 1'0 hereof.

My invention has relation to improvements in horse lawn-shoes; and it consists in the novel details of construction more fully set forth in the specification and point- 5 ed out inthe claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a. horse-shoe showing my invention applied thereto, the hoof of the animal being shown dotted; Fig. 2 is a top plan of the lawn=shoe with parts broken away,

thc-horse-shoe being shown dotted; Fig. 3

is a sectional detail on the line 3-3 of Fig.

2, with the loop in ed e view; and Fig. 4 is ,a sectional detail on t e-line 44 of Fig. 2. The present invention has for its object to provide a lawn-shoe for horses (mules and other draft animals) which may? be readily attached to the hoof of the animal and to'thp ordinary horse-shoe secured to said hoof,-and as readily detached there-' from, the primary object sought being. to qonstructa shoe which will be light, durable. and not clumsy. The main use for such a shoe of course, is on lawns where horses are employed to draw a mower for cutting the grass,- although obviously.tl1c application need not be restricted thereto. The advantages of the shoe will be aparent from a detailed description of the invention-which is as follows Beferrin to the drawings H represents the animals hoof, and S the ordinary horseshoe, herein shown referably without toe on heel calks.

ers a, a, a, of leather, or equivalent material joinedtogether by margin lly disposed rivets r or otherwise, and of a size' to fairly overlap the hoof of the animal. Extending across the front of the pad, and preferably betweent-hc bottom and the next adjacent .layer a, is an anchor-plate 1 having outwardly deflected terminalsor lugs e, 6, projecting through the top layer ofthe pad,

said lugs being provided with eyes or rings hearing. The purpose of inclining the axes hoofand thus better hug the hoof. lBesides,

The awn-shoe consists of a pad composed preferably of a series of lay- 2, 2,.hinged to oscillate abou axes disposed substantially parallel to the general dip of the face of the hoof, through Which eyes a securing strap 3 may be passed, said strap being provided with an ordinary buckle B by which the length of the strap may be adjusted according to the span of the hoof H. At the front end of the shoe is disposed a central leather (or equivalent) loop 4 of sutfieient lengtlrto engage the front wall of the hoof, through which loop the strap 3 is passed, and by which itis held against displacement. The loop may be riveted to the bottom layer of the pad andpassed through the remaining layers or otherwise (Fig. 3)..70

' Leading from and riveted to, one en'dof the plate 1 and embedded between the layers of the pad is a plate or member whose free end terminates in a socket 6, passed through and projecting: above the upper layer of thepad, a similar plate 5 leading from the opposite end of the plate 1, and likewise terminating in a socketG'. 'lhe socket (3 however is passed through a transverse elongated slot 8 of the upper layer a,

so as to permit of lateral adjustment or oscillation of the member 5' and its socket about the riveted end of the member-as a pivot. 'lVhile this oscillation is but slighta it is sutlicient to adjustthe socket 6 to any width of shoe S. the purpose'ofv the slot 8 being to permit the adjustment of the socket- 6 to any shoe Fl which the animal may be of oscillation of the rings or eyes 2; 2, is to cause said eyes to oscillate as near at right angles as possible'to the pitch of the front wall of the hoof so as to better enable the flat face of the strap 3 to pass around the the strain. in tightening the stra 'will he disposed in a plane at right s ng to the,

pitch of the hoof as it should be.- The shoe operates 'as'follows: To secure the-shoe to'th'e hoof H and to the shoe S 100 carried thereby, the attcndant'raises the foot of the animal to a position usual with a blacksmith in shoeing a horse: he then. places the top layer or surface of the 'pad against the shoe S, opposite one of the heels of the shoe and adjusting the opposite socket 6 (as described) so as to bring the same opposite the other heel, afterwhich the sockets are passed over the heels, or what amornts to 110 bringing the socket 6 the same thing, the heels are slipped into their respective sockets. The attendant then passes the strap 3 (one end of which is per lnanently secured to one of the eyes 2) through the loop -'l and opposite eye 2, drawing it tight about the hoof, and securing the free end of the strap to the buckle B as Well understood in the art. The lawn-shoe thus secured cannot become detached; it is light and is comfortable for the animal. The pad composed of the layers a, a, a, while compartively soft, is reinforced and stiffened by the members 1, 5, 5. Preferably, the layer a superposed over the layer which directly supports the plates 5, 5, has sections removed therefrom to accommodate the plates. thus bringing the upper faces of the plates flush with. the corresponding face of said superposed layer (the middle one in the present instance, since there are three layers), the removed portion h accommodating the plate 5 being of sufficient width to allow for any adjustments or oscillations to which this particular plate may be subjected. These details however, are not claimed, and are merely resorted to so as to avoid a clumsy finish on the shoe, for it must be obvious that with the plates 1, 5, 5, em-

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bedded as shown, a neat, fiat lawn-shoe will result.

Having described my invention, What I claim is A lawn-shoe comprising a pad composed of a series of layers, a transversely disposed plate embedded between two adjacent layers and having terminals projecting through the sockets opposite the heel ends of the horse shoe securedfto the hoof, anda loop at the front of the pad through which the strap is passed.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature, in presence oi-two witnesses, 1 cHAR Es zrscsr.

Witnesses:

', EMIL STAREK,

- Joe. A. ,Mrcrmt. 

